The Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Armenia presents video footage showing how a group of servicemen of the Azerbaijani armed forces approaches the reservist G. V., who appeared on the Azerbaijani side in yet unclarified circumstances, first, talks to, then apprehends him and takes by car to an unknown direction.
From the day the blockade of the Lachin Corridor began, I, alongside my colleagues in Congress and Armenians around the country, have urged the White House, the State Department, and USAID, to take action to protect the people of Artsakh and their right to self-determination.
The video was titled “Tigran Avinyan, the newly richman”. It used excerpts from Tigran Avinyan’s interviews, and other information about the deputy mayor and his family, friends’ businesses, and property taken exclusively from open sources. Tigran Avinyan applied to the court to make the journalist apologize, to oblige him to deny the information defaming his honor, dignity and business reputation and to pay monetary compensation. In general, Tigran Avinyan demanded that 18 million drams be imposed on the property and bank accounts of journalist Davit Sargsyan and “168 Hours”.
The Union of Armenian journalists (UAJ) has condemned the harassment of journalists and their relatives following a press conference by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan that was held on 25 July in Yerevan in a climate of tension in the wake of recent events in Nagorno-Karabakh.
However, one party we have not heard from is the Government of Armenia which could officially contact the State of Israel to make its wishes known. However, Armenia’s leaders have their hands full right now, given the precarious situation in Artsakh and Armenia.
It became known recently that the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) also joined the statements of the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) and the Union of Journalists of Armenia (UJA).
The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) joins its affiliate in Armenia, the Union of Armenian journalists (UAJ), in condemning the campaign of insults and harassment launched by government supporters on social networks and in certain online media following Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan‘s press conference in Yerevan on 25 July, in a climate of tension following the events in Karabakh. We call on the Armenian authorities to publicly denounce these threats and to prosecute and punish the perpetrators.
The Union of Journalists of Armenia calls on all its colleagues, representatives of partner journalistic organizations, to act as real journalists at the forum organized in Shushi, to ask its organizers questions not only about the press of the future, but also, first of all, about the citizens, children, elderly, and people in general who were sentenced to death by them. Who should the media serve if not humans, even the cutting-edge new media?
The situation in Artsakh is getting worse very rapidly. The supply of all kinds of goods, including food and medicine, has been stopped for 34 days, Artsakh has been under siege for more than 7 months.
As a pan-European grassroots organization, representing a significant part of the Armenian diaspora in Europe, the EAFJD expresses its profound disappointment and indignation regarding President Charles Michel’s press remarks following the trilateral meeting with President Aliyev of Azerbaijan and Prime Minister Pashinyan of Armenia on 15 July, 2023.
